WhatsApp is dominating in India, Brazil, and Africa . However it is still struggling to gain a foothold in the U.S. where it faces stiff competition from apps including Facebook Messenger, and iMessage.

Some statistics from WhatsApp

At present, its users send

42 billion messages

1.6 billion photos

50 million videos each day.

“As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip and at some point people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp,”